i MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING VINH UNIVERSITY VO NGOC ANH A STUDY ON THE IMPACT OF TEACHING INFERENTIAL READING SKILLS TO EFL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS Major: Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Code: 60140111 MASTER’S THESIS IN EDUCATION SUPERVISOR: TRAN THI NGOC YEN VINH, 8/2017 i ABSTRACT Inferential reading skill courses have been considered an effective method to improve learners’ reading comprehension Research in this area has concentrated on the categorization of inferences, but an insufficient amount of investigation has been done into the effect of an inferential reading skill course on students’ reading comprehension development This thesis, in the first place, seeks to determine if teaching inferential reading skills to English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners helps them to improve their reading comprehension The study, in the second place, aims to determine if learning inferential reading skills will motivate EFL learners to read In the experiment, an inferential reading skill course was delivered to a treatment group Pre-test and post-test were administered before and after the treatment to assess the participants’ reading comprehension It was found that the treatment group outperformed the control group in terms of comprehension The difference was significant ((p